Peter Jackson Changes Hobbit Finale to Battle of Five Armies

Peter Jackson has opted out of calling the Hobbit finale The Hobbit: There and Back Again to Battle of Five Armies. Jackson said:

“When we did the premiere trip late last year, I had a quiet conversation with the studio about the idea of revisiting the title. We decided to keep an open mind until a cut of the film was ready to look at. We reached that point last week, and after viewing the movie, we all agreed there is now one title that feels completely appropriate.”

I am imagining what the critics would have made of the original title…

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26 Comments on this Post

Bob Burns

The Hobbit is a lovely book, chock full of intelligent English prose. Please don’t let this hash prevent you from reading and enjoying it.

The LotR films were superb, full of poetry. These things are a joke. The worst line in the LotR films was “Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys!” It was startlingly bad in the midst of so much intelligence. These things are almost entirely at that low level. What a waste of an opportunity.

Al Robinson

I’m okay with how Peter Jackson did An Unusual Journey and The Desolation of Smaug. I thought they were both really enjoyable films, but I think the entire The Hobbit story could have been told in 2 parts:

1. Before the Dragon
2. Dragon

But, with that said, I will certainly enjoy the 3rd and final film in the trilogy.

Kane

joe

Jesus Alonso

I am extremely tempted of re-editing The Hobbitt films trimming them down to just 30 minutes each, to prove the whole thing could have been JUST a 90 minutes feature length and that the travesty we’re assisting to is just another case of “milking the cow”… instead of doing something authentically smart about it and do what WB is doing with Harry Potter: EXPLORING that Universe, beyond the original franchise.

I have to say that The Hobbit 1 & 2 are two of the WORST film “adaptations” I’ve ever seen: unnecessarily long, repetitive, with boring action sequences, total lack of emotional investment on the characters (specially on the new ones, even Gandalf becomes boring, despite McKellen’s efforts)… the fact the films are making so much money is further proof of our Pavlovian society, in which we’re just trained to go with the flow.

Kelly

The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies: First Army
The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies: Second Army
The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies: Third Army
The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies: Fourth Army
The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies: Fifth Army

Bryce Forestieri

OT: Was finally able to see James Gray’s THE IMMIGRANT. Let me rephrase. I was somehow able to get through James Gray’s THE IMMIGRANT. Excruciatingly boring. It takes A LOT to bore me like this film did. Ballpark? we’re talking Ackerman/Angelopoulos lethargic. James Gray comes across as very educated, well versed in cinema history, and hell by all indications it seems like he has some sort of good taste, but he has no talent whatsoever as an actual filmmaker. He should instead be teaching. I love listening to him. Having said all this I do like THE YARDS, I think he did tap into something while making that film and the result is damn engrossing, unfortunately that’s what one out of six films? Who am I to say if he was onto something different while making that film, but he should try it again. This has to be a career low for Darius Khondji — look is just dreadful. I’m just glad it ended.

Bryce Forestieri

Marcus Perriello

‘Battle of Five Armies’ almost sounds like a ‘Planet of the Apes’ sequel. The reason I won’t give Peter Jackson any grief on this is because the book was officially entitled ‘The Hobbit’, and nothing else. This gives Jackson a little more freedom with titles, given that he has split the book into three parts. I think we should bear in mind that Peter Jackson and his crew have made each film of their respective trilogies better and better as they went along. So, don’t be premature in judging the third film just because he changed the title. Knowing Peter Jackson and he affinity for Tolkien, I’m sure the third movie will be flat-out awesome!

Al Robinson

To me, bad movies that are expected to be bad, really aren’t that bad. But, when a movie is boring, that’s when I really have a problem. It’s dissapointing when I’m looking forward to a movie, and I find myself thinking about other stuff, because the movie can’t hold my attention.